Crosby, Stills, & Nash cover

[_Dr. Shades]

I had a friend who went to Woodstock. If you were not near the stage, the primary attraction was that you were in a muddy field with half a million people.

Where did everyone go to the bathroom?

[_Jersey Girl]

Why are you here?

??? Now I'm more confused than before.

Please explain what "first born only child" means to you.

I'll reply to this via private messages.

[_MeDotOrg]

I had a friend who went to Woodstock. If you were not near the stage, the primary attraction was that you were in a muddy field with half a million people.

Where did everyone go to the bathroom?

The organizers of the festival expected (based on ticket sales) about 50,000 people, so they brought enough port-a-potties for 50,000. I think there was some effort to dig latrine trenches, but 20th Century sanitation was not a feature of Woodstock.

[_Markk]

Where did everyone go to the bathroom?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V0OqUMoRP4

[_Jersey Girl]

Oh...…..why did you have to bring up Woodstock? One of my cousins was going and my mother wouldn't let me go because she didn't think he'd take care of me.

He went. I didn't.

I hindsight she was right to make that decision but it is one of the great disappointments of my life! I should have been in that crowd. Ticks me off just thinking about it.

Second only to that was when she wouldn't let my boyfriend take me to Times Square on NYE because she didn't think he'd take care of me either.

I just finished making his dinner. Go figure.

I had a friend who went to Woodstock. If you were not near the stage, the primary attraction was that you were in a muddy field with half a million people. If you ever saw The Life of Brian, there's a scene where the people at the back of the crowd are listening to the Sermon on the Mount, and they think Jesus said "blessed are the cheesemakers." That's what Woodstock was like at the back of the crowd. It was only after my friend left Woodstock that he realized that his mud bivouac was now part of the cultural zeitgeist of his generation.

My cousin came back covered in mud and happy as hell. I so would've loved to go there. I was born in Sullivan County, it would've been so cool to go back and experience it in a different way at a different time in my life.

[_Markk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hQIhWasQRM

Well written Lyrics...well written album.

It's hard to explain, but Leon is one of those that comes off as a rough hick, but his lyrics are so deep and with meaning. Me and Baby Jane was never a real hit, but one of those songs that you never forget, at least for me.

If you haven't listened to it, it is a love song about a lover that he lost to heroin.

"Janie was my first love
We shared the pains of school
She offered me a balance for a while
And she gave me innocence
I seemed like less a fool
She always had a line to make me smile"

But we separated early
Not an easy thing to do
Sometime seems tomorrow never comes
But we couldn't keep together
For all the times we tried
We had a sad reunion tonight

[Chorus 1]
Oh how we laughed together
Trapped in the grapes of wrath together
Yes and we loved each other
Me and Baby Jane

But now she's gone forever
Lord help me stay together
See her vacant eyes and a needle in a vein
Oh baby, baby, Baby Jane

I see the purple mountains
I'm lost and in between
A place that I know well and in a bad dream
Others stand beside me too late to try and find
Excuses in the face of being blind

But now she is awaiting
For the feeling of the cold
To free her from the nightmare of old
She was a part of me silently alone
And too far down to draw the line

[Chorus 2]
Oh how we laughed together
Trapped in the grapes of wrath together
Yes and we loved each other
Me and Baby Jane

But now she's gone forever
Lord help us stay together
I see her in the sky and early morning rain
Oh baby, baby, Baby Jane

[_RockSlider]

I am enjoying these foxes and fossils!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaqTl1jLdkE nice

The fox on the right is the lead fossil's daughter

[_MeDotOrg]

One of my favorite verses is from Leon Russell:

And I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I've loved you for my life, you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over, remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singin' my song for you

If you would like to see a great psychedelic traveling show kind of movie, I'd recommend Mad Dogs & Englishmen, the tour of the Joe Cocker album of the same name. Shot in grainy 16 millimeter film, it is the story of a tour that was cobbled together at the last second to fulfill a contractual obligation of Cocker's record deal. Leon Russell was hired by Cocker to be the musical director. He put together an amazing group of musicians that formed a travelling circus in an old constellation airliner.

You can get a little taste with Space Captain.

Joe Cocker loved Ray Charles, but Ray Charles would have been aghast at the Mad Dogs & Englishmen musicians. Where Ray Charles was well rehearsed and tight as s drum, here things are incredibly sloppy, but also incredibly exuberant. There's a communal joy that comes through the music making.

[_Markk]

I am enjoying these foxes and fossils!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaqTl1jLdkE nice

The fox on the right is the lead fossil's daughter

He also has a band called the Mustangs (no foxes)...I read that his wife is a high powered attorney and she told him to just go for it as far as his music. Good stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq6QtMyOqlQ

[_Markk]

One of my favorite verses is from Leon Russell:

And I love you in a place where there's no space or time
I've loved you for my life, you are a friend of mine
And when my life is over, remember when we were together
We were alone and I was singin' my song for you

If you would like to see a great psychedelic traveling show kind of movie, I'd recommend Mad Dogs & Englishmen, the tour of the Joe Cocker album of the same name. Shot in grainy 16 millimeter film, it is the story of a tour that was cobbled together at the last second to fulfill a contractual obligation of Cocker's record deal. Leon Russell was hired by Cocker to be the musical director. He put together an amazing group of musicians that formed a travelling circus in an old constellation airliner.

You can get a little taste with Space Captain.

Joe Cocker loved Ray Charles, but Ray Charles would have been aghast at the Mad Dogs & Englishmen musicians. Where Ray Charles was well rehearsed and tight as s drum, here things are incredibly sloppy, but also incredibly exuberant. There's a communal joy that comes through the music making.

Nice...

One of my all time favorites is Leon and Cocker (not in the RR Hall of Fame either...huh?) singing Dylan's North Country Girl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03HG7OtMI0A